Lloyd smith



L. SMITH.

PRINTING BORDER.

APPLICATION F Patented May 13, 1919.

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LLOYD SMITH, OF YORKVILLE, ILLINOIS.

PRINTING-BORDER.

Application filed February 28, 1919.

1 '0 all whom it may concern Be it known that I, LLOYD SMITH, a citizen of the United States, residing at Yorkville, in the county of Kendall and the State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Printing-Borders, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to that class of printers devices commonly known as rules and borders, and the object of the invention is the saving of time and labor, by providing a. device of this type in which the border is quickly and easily locked in place, thereby avoiding the necessity of placing the rules loosely around the job and then tying with string, a common practice in many offices even at the present time.

The present invention consists in side and end rules with interlocking corner pieces, said rules and corners being constructed as hereinafter described, pointed out in the claims and shown in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure l is a plan view of a complete border, in locked position.

Fig. 2 is a side elevation, partly broken away and partly in section.

Fig. 3 is a perspective view of the outer face of one of the rules.

Fig. 4 is a perspective view of the inner face of one of the corner pieces.

Fig. 5 is an enlarged detail horizontal section taken through the lower portion of a rule end and corner piece, looking downwardly, the parts being in locked position.

In these drawings 1 designates side and end rules and 2 the angled, interlocking corner pieces. The rules have their printing edges grooved as at 3 and the corner pieces are similarly grooved as at 4, the grooves of the rules and corners matching when the border is assembled. These give an ornamental appearance to the border and can be varied as desired without in any way affecting the present invention.

Each rule is provided at its ends with an end extension, having substantially one half the height of the rule and flush with its Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May 13, 1919.

Serial No. 279,722.

their end portions adjacent said slots are rednced in thickness as at 8 leaving inner horizontal shoulders 9 which extend from the top edge of the slots 7 to the ends of the corner pieces.

lVhen the border is assembled the rules and corner pieces interlock. The end portions 8 of the corner pieces having a thickness equal to the depth of the grooves 6, they fit snugly therein, with the shoulders 9 resting on the upper edge of the adjacent rule extension, including the tops of the posts 5, the latter fitting in the slots 7. The frictional engagement of these parts serve to hold the border rigid, but as soon as one member of the border is removed and the lateral pressure thereby removed, the other members fall away. I have therefore provided a border which can be easily and quickly assembled in locked position, and which can be as quickly taken down.

hat I claim is 1. In a printers border, rules having end extensions provided with vertical grooves and end posts, of less height than the rules, and angled corner pieces, vertically slotted and reduced in thickness at their lower corners to receive said extensions and posts.

2. In a device of the kind described, rules having extensions of less height than the rule bodies, said extensions being vertically grooved, corner pieces vertically slotted from their base upwardly and reduced in thickness adjacent said slots forming horizontal shoulders, said extensions and slotted portions of the corner pieces interlocking when assembled, and the shoulders of the corner pieces resting on said extensions, as and for the purpose set forth.

In testimony whereof I have aflixed my signature.

LLOYD SMITH.

copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Gommiuioner oi Patents. Waahington, D. G. 

